Knowledge Problem

Quotation of the Day … from Keynes

Lynne Kiesling

I am attending an electricity markets workshop that we are holding here at Northwestern, about which I’ll have more to say later, but for now I wanted to capture a quotation of the day (apologies to Don Boudreaux for using his meme):

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.

-John Maynard Keynes (1936)

Hung-po Chao from ISO New England used this quote in his talk, with reference to what I think of as the crucial need to clear the overgrowth in the regulatory underbrush, and the perverse incentives that underbrush creates (and the special interests that perpetuate it).